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PZ Meyers hilighted this museum had a creationist agenda after which Wiki editors (correctly) added a comment to the article to reference that fact. It seems that someone would rather rewrite history than admit it, reverting edits which added creationist references. Links supporting this conclusion such as this one have now mysteriously disappeared - www.dinosaurworld.com/2011/07/25/educational-information-at-dinosaur-world/. Fortunately google comes to the rescue and the text is visible from their cache - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.dinosaurworld.com/2011/07/25/educational-information-at-dinosaur-world/. It would do well for someone to archive it. One wonders why the theme park would attempt to hide their agenda like this.
The full text of this "Educational Information" is listed below
MagicMoose ( talk) 16:03, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Folks, we need to be careful and honest about the info here. The cached version of the now removed content states
At Dinosaur World, we present interesting facts about each dinosaur. Examples include, what they ate and unique charactaristics of each. However, we do have many books in the giftshop including information on creationism. Below is an example.
The creationist content is presumably derived from a creationist book (unidentified). Furthermore, the "Creation Science" section cited "Teacher's Guide" is more consistent with a non-committal position consistent with the statement "Dinosaur World is neither a creationist museum nor evolutionary museum - educational materials on both views are available in gift shop". Some will view any accommodation of creationist viewpoints as anti-evolution/pro-creation; this point-of-view may not be inaccurate. However, unless a secondary source provides the interpretation that Dinosaur World "adheres to a creationist philosophy" (or Dinosaur World states this themselves, we're in WP:NOR territory. PZ's blog post should not be considered enough to expand the criticism section beyond, say, this status, without some secondary source backup. — Scien tizzle 16:48, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14391 I know it is not much, and it is ultimately based off the Teacher's Guide, but these guys also think they are very weak on actual science.
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17:06, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
FYI the creationist page is still live on this site in other languages -- they only removed the english version:
http://www.dinosaurworld.com/fr/2011/07/25/educational-information-at-dinosaur-world/
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PZ Meyers hilighted this museum had a creationist agenda after which Wiki editors (correctly) added a comment to the article to reference that fact. It seems that someone would rather rewrite history than admit it, reverting edits which added creationist references. Links supporting this conclusion such as this one have now mysteriously disappeared - www.dinosaurworld.com/2011/07/25/educational-information-at-dinosaur-world/. Fortunately google comes to the rescue and the text is visible from their cache - http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.dinosaurworld.com/2011/07/25/educational-information-at-dinosaur-world/. It would do well for someone to archive it. One wonders why the theme park would attempt to hide their agenda like this.
The full text of this "Educational Information" is listed below
MagicMoose ( talk) 16:03, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
Folks, we need to be careful and honest about the info here. The cached version of the now removed content states
At Dinosaur World, we present interesting facts about each dinosaur. Examples include, what they ate and unique charactaristics of each. However, we do have many books in the giftshop including information on creationism. Below is an example.
The creationist content is presumably derived from a creationist book (unidentified). Furthermore, the "Creation Science" section cited "Teacher's Guide" is more consistent with a non-committal position consistent with the statement "Dinosaur World is neither a creationist museum nor evolutionary museum - educational materials on both views are available in gift shop". Some will view any accommodation of creationist viewpoints as anti-evolution/pro-creation; this point-of-view may not be inaccurate. However, unless a secondary source provides the interpretation that Dinosaur World "adheres to a creationist philosophy" (or Dinosaur World states this themselves, we're in WP:NOR territory. PZ's blog post should not be considered enough to expand the criticism section beyond, say, this status, without some secondary source backup. — Scien tizzle 16:48, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14391 I know it is not much, and it is ultimately based off the Teacher's Guide, but these guys also think they are very weak on actual science.
134.161.227.70 (
talk)
17:06, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
FYI the creationist page is still live on this site in other languages -- they only removed the english version:
http://www.dinosaurworld.com/fr/2011/07/25/educational-information-at-dinosaur-world/